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ABUNDANT SUPPLY LOOSE SAND REGION GENERALLY DEVOID VEGETATION SUCH ANCIENT LAKE RIVER DELTA WIND ENERGY SOURCE SUFFICIENT MOVE SAND GRAINS TOPOGRAPHY WHEREBY SAND PARTICLES LOSE THEIR MOMENTUM SETTLE NUMBER OBJECTS SUCH SHRUBS ROCKS FENCE POSTS OBSTRUCT WIND FORCE CAUSING SAND PILE DRIFTS ULTIMATELY LARGE DUNES THERE EVEN REPORTS HILLS FORMING NUCLEUS UPON WHICH SAND DUNES BUILT DIRECTION VELOCITY WINDS ADDITION LOCAL SUPPLY SAND RESULT VARIETY DUNE SHAPES SIZES WIND MOVES INDIVIDUAL GRAINS ALONG INCLINED WINDWARD SURFACE UNTIL THEY REACH CREST CASCADE DOWN STEEP LEEWARD SIDE SLIP FACE PILING BASE SLOWLY ENCROACHING TERRITORY SOME CALIFORNIA DUNES WITH CRESTS ONLY FEET HIGH ADVANCE FEET YEAR POSING SERIOUS THREAT NEARBY FARMS ROADS WIND DIRECTION FAIRLY UNIFORM OVER YEARS DUNES GRADUALLY SHIFT DIRECTION PREVAILING WIND VEGETATION STABILIZE DUNE THUS PREVENTING MOVEMENT WITH PREVAILING WIND ALONG OREGON COAST ENTIRE FORESTS COVER SAND DUNE AREAS SOMETIMES SEVERE STORMS OTHER DISTURBANCES DESTROY FOREST CANOPY ALLOWING SAND FROM NEARBY DUNES MOVE INTO DISTURBED AREA FACT WOLFFIA STOOD CREST SHIFTING DUNE WHERE SITKA SPRUCE PICEA SITCHENSIS PROTRUDING FROM SAND AERIAL VIEW ALGODONES DUNES NEAR GLAMIS CALIFORNIA SHOWING HIGHWAY THIS BELT SAND DUNES EXTENDS SOUTHEASTERLY MORE THAN MILES ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN CORNER ARIZONA INTO SONORA MEXICO PHOTO TAKEN FROM HIGH-FLYING AIRCRAFT WOLFFIA WAYNE'S WORD HIPPO STAFF STRUCTURE MINERAL COMPOSITION SAND GRAINS DEPENDS GEOLOGY MOUNTAINS THAT HAVE BEEN ERODED AWAY WIND WATER ALTHOUGH MOST DUNES COMPOSED QUARTZ FELDSPAR GRAINS BRILLIANT SNOW-WHITE DUNES WHITE SANDS MEXICO COMPOSED GYPSUM SPECTACULAR BLACK SAND BEACHES TROPICAL SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS MADE FINE VOLCANIC PARTICLES GLEAMING WHITE SANDS TROPICAL CORAL BEACHES ATOLLS COMPOSED GLISTENING MICROSCOPIC ASSORTMENT REEF ANIMALS ALGAE INCLUDING WAVE-WORN FRAGMENTS BRIGHTLY-COLORED CORALS MINUTE ONE-CELLED FORAMINIFERANS FRAGMENTS SHELLS STAR-SHAPED SPONGE SPICULES FRAGMENTS JOINTED PLATES FROM COMMON CALCAREOUS GREEN ALGA HALIMEDA THAT GROWS AMONG SUBMARINE SEAGRASS MEADOWS CORAL REEFS SUPPLEMENT ABOUT CALCAREOUS BEACH SANDS EVIDENCE ABRASION SANDBLASTED SURFACES TELEPHONE POLES POSTS REVEALS THAT SAND GRAINS SELDOM TRAVEL MORE THAN FEET ABOVE GROUND MYRIADS SAND GRAINS BOUNCING ROLLING WINDWARD SURFACE DUNE OFTEN FORM SERIES RIDGES TROUGHS CALLED WIND RIPPLES BOUNCING SAND GRAINS TEND LAND WINDWARD SIDE EACH RIPPLE THUS PRODUCING RIDGE WITHOUT GETTING COMPLICATED SPACING RIPPLES RELATED AVERAGE DISTANCE GRAINS JUMP THIS TURN RELATED WIND VELOCITY SIZE GRAINS WIND RIPPLES OFTEN VERY SPECTACULAR PHOTOGENIC ESPECIALLY WHEN THOUSANDS TINY RIDGES CATCH SHADOWS EARLY MORNING LATE AFTERNOON MANY PEOPLE ASSOCIATE DESERTS WITH VAST AREAS DRIFTING SAND PORTRAYED NUMBER HOLLYWOOD FILMS DEPICTING FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION BATTLES WORLD OTHER DRAMAS FACT LESS THAN PERCENT EARTH'S TOTAL DESERT AREA COVERED WITH SAND SAND DUNES ONLY ACCOUNT ABOUT PERCENT SURFACE NORTH AMERICAN DESERTS LARGEST DUNE SYSTEMS UNITED STATES ALGODONES DUNES EXTENDS SOUTHEASTERLY MORE THAN MILES FROM NORTH GLAMIS IMPERIAL COUNTY CALIFORNIA SOUTHWESTERN CORNER ARIZONA INTO SONORA MEXICO CALIFORNIA DUNES RANGE FROM MILES WIDTH WITH CRESTS RISING FEET ABOVE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE OTHER LARGE DUNES OCCUR DEATH VALLEY EUREKA VALLEY MOJAVE DESERT NEAR KELSO ALONG CALIFORNIA COAST JUST SOUTH PISMO BEACH EUREKA DUNES RISE NEARLY FEET GREAT SAND DUNES COLORADO RISE NEARLY FEET MASSIVE WHITE DUNES SAND MOUNTAIN SOUTHEAST FALLON NEVADA THIS BOOMING ACOUSTICAL DUNES UNITED STATES THESE TOWERING FORMATIONS SANDSTONE ZION NATIONAL PARK UTAH WERE ONCE ENORMOUS SAND DUNES SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET TALL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOMING DUNES CENTURIES EXPLORERS NATURALISTS THROUGHOUT WORLD HAVE DESCRIBED STRANGE SOUNDS EMANATING FROM SAND DUNES STRANGE SQUEAKING SOUNDS ALSO PRODUCED BEACH SAND SIMPLY COMPRESSING SAND WITH YOUR FOOT POKING WITH SOME EARLIEST REFERENCES ABOUT ACOUSTICAL DUNES FOUND CHINESE MIDEASTERN CHRONICLES DATING BACK MORE THAN YEARS MARCO POLO DESCRIBED WEIRD SOUNDS JOURNEY THROUGH GOBI DESERT CHARLES DARWIN MENTIONED WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH CHILE SOUNDS HAVE BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED SINGING WHISTLING SQUEAKING ROARING BOOMING SOME ACCOUNTS COMPARE SOUNDS WITH DISTANT KETTLE DRUMS ARTILLERY FIRE THUNDER LOW-FLYING PROPELLER AIRCRAFT BASS VIOLINS PIPE ORGANS HUMMING TELEGRAPH WIRES FREQUENCY SOUNDS PRODUCED WHEN CLOSELY PACKED SAND GRAINS SLIDE OVER EACH OTHER SUCH AVALANCHE DOWN SLIP FACE DUNE STATIONARY SAND UNDERNEATH APPARENTLY ACTS GIANT SOUNDING BOARD AMPLIFIER PRODUCE ENORMOUS VOLUME SOUND SAND MUST VERY SOUND PRODUCTION UNDER MICROSCOPE GRAINS APPEAR MORE ROUNDED FINELY POLISHED COMPARED WITH ORDINARY SILENT SAND ASTRONOMERS GEOLOGISTS HAVE SPECULATED THAT THIS REMARKABLE PHENOMENON COMMON WINDY NEARLY WATERLESS SAND DUNES MARS QUARTZ SAND GRAINS COMPARED WITH CUBICAL CRYSTALS ORDINARY TABLE SALT NACL LEFT ANGULAR SAND GRAINS FROM ALGODONES DUNES MIDDLE ROUNDED HIGHLY POLISHED SAND GRAINS FROM SAND MOUNTAIN BOOMING DUNE RIGHT CUBICAL CRYSTALS ORDINARY TABLE SALT ACOUSTICAL BOOMING DUNES RATHER WIDESPREAD EARTH INCLUDING SAHARA DESERT MIDDLE EAST SOUTH AFRICA CHILE BAJA CALIFORNIA HAWAIIAN ISLANDS CALIFORNIA LEAST DOCUMENTED AREAS WITH BOOMING DUNES MASSIVE KELSO DUNES BERNARDINO COUNTY SCENIC EUREKA DUNES INYO COUNTY BEST PLACES OBSERVE BOOMING DUNES WESTERN UNITED STATES SAND MOUNTAIN ABOUT MILES SOUTHEAST FALLON NEVADA SHORT DIRT ROAD NORTH HIGHWAY LEADS BASE MASSIVE WHITE DUNES SAND MOUNTAIN COMPOSED SEIF SWORD-SHAPED DUNES WHOSE SUMMITS STAND ABOUT FEET ABOVE DESERT FLOOR REALLY APPRECIATE THIS ACOUSTICAL PHENOMENON MUST CLIMB CREST DUNE THEN SLIDE DOWN STEEP SLIP FACE GOING DOWN WITH AVALANCHE SAND SORT LIKE RIDING DOWN ESCALATOR ANKLE DEEP SAND SAND BEGINS VIBRATE SOUND BECOMES QUITE LOUD LIKE LOW-FLYING BOMBER SQUADRON WORLD VINTAGE FIGHTER PLANES THERE SEVERAL INTERESTING LEGENDS ABOUT MYSTERIOUS MOANING SAND MOUNTAIN ACCORDING MARY HOLLIDAY NEVADA OFFICIAL BICENTENNIAL BOOK PAGE LARGE DINOSAUR PLESIOSAUR ONCE LIVED FROLICKED WITH MATE ANCIENT LAKE LAHONTAN STRONG WINDS PILED LAKEBED SEDIMENTS INTO WHAT CALLED SAND MOUNTAIN COMPLETELY BURYING DINOSAUR UNDER HUNDREDS FEET SAND TODAY DINOSAUR MOANS MATE DEEP BLUE WATERS LAKE LAHONTAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHERE BOOMING DUNES UNITED STATES DRYNESS ESSENTIAL SOUND PRODUCTION BOOMING SAND RAIN HIGH HUMIDITY WILL ELIMINATE BOOMING COMPLETELY DAYS BEST EXPERIENCE THIS REMARKABLE PHENOMENON MORE INFORMATION PLEASE REFER ARTICLE ABOUT BOOMING DUNES JERRY SCHAD OMNI PAGES KELSO DUNES CONSIST GROUPS LARGE BARCHAN CRESCENT-SHAPED DUNES MILES SOUTHWEST TOWN KELSO BERNARDINO COUNTY ACCESS FROM EITHER INTERSTATE INTERSTATE PAVED KELBAKER ROAD SHORT SEGMENT DIRT ROAD THAT PASSES WITHIN MILES SOUTHERN EDGE HIGHEST DUNE SAND MOUNTAIN WESTERN NEVADA LIES MILES NORTH HIGHWAY ABOUT MILES EAST FALLON DIRT ROAD LEADS SOFT APRON ALONG BASE FROM HERE EASY WALK DUNES ROARING SANDS BARKING SANDS WEST COAST KAUAI HAWAII NEAR MANA PARALLEL COAST MILE THEY UNIQUE BECAUSE THEY CONSIST CARBONATE SAND--WATER-WORN WIND-BLOWN FRAGMENTS SHELLS CORALS UNDER MICROSCOPE HAND LENS ACTUALLY PIECES SHELLS CORALS MOST OTHER BOOMING DUNES WORLD COMPOSED QUARTZ SAND GRAINS BACK BEACH DUNES ISLAND NIIHAU HAWAII KNOWN THEIR BOOMING SOUNDS BEACH SANDS ALONG BAJA CALIFORNIA COAST ALSO EMIT SQUEAKING SOUNDS WHEN SHUFFLING THROUGH TOPMOST LAYER SAND DURING SEASON THIS PARTICULARLY TRUE CAPE REGION BOOMING BEEN REPORTED EUREKA DUNES REMOTE EUREKA VALLEY NORTHEASTERN INYO COUNTY CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY WESTGARD PASS ROAD HEADS NORTHEAST FROM PINE CALIFORNIA'S SCENIC OWENS VALLEY ABOUT MILES FROM PINE PAVED ROAD EUREKA VALLEY GOES EAST NORTH ROAD TURNS INTO GRAVEL WINDS THROUGH EUREKA VALLEY THROUGH LAST CHANCE RANGE EVENTUALLY CONNECTS WITH UBEHEBE CRATER DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT BUMPY DIRT ROAD SOUTHEAST CORNER EUREKA VALLEY LEADS SAND DUNES THESE TALLEST SAND DUNES CALIFORNIA HOME RARE EUREKA DUNE GRASS SWALLENIA ALEXANDRAE THAT GROWS WHERE ELSE WORLD BARKING SANDS BEACH STRETCH GLEAMING WHITE SAND DUNES ARID WEST COAST KAUAI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIFE SAND DUNES PINK SAND VERBENA ABRONIA VILLOSA WHITE DUNE EVENING-PRIMROSE OENOTHERA DELTOIDES COMMON WILDFLOWERS SAND DUNE AREAS COLORADO DESERT SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES MANY ANIMALS PLANTS HAVE ADAPTED LIFE DRIFTING SAND DURING YEARS WITH FAVORABLE WINTER RAINS CARPETS PINK SAND VERBENA ABRONIA VILLOSA WHITE DUNE EVENING-PRIMROSE OENOTHERA DELTOIDES YELLOW SUNFLOWER GERAEA CANESCENS EXTEND MILES FILLED WITH SWEET AROMA FRAGRANT BLOSSOMS DEEP-ROOTED SHRUBS SUCH MESQUITE PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA CREOSOTE BUSH LARREA TRIDENTATA DESERT BUCKWHEAT ERIOGONUM DESERTICOLA PROVIDE VITAL SHADE FOOD HOST ANIMALS FROM INSECTS REPTILES BIRDS MAMMALS OFTEN ENTIRE RODENT CONDOMINIUMS CONSTRUCTED BENEATH PROTECTIVE COVER DUNE SHRUBS COLORADO DESERT FRINGE-TOED LIZARD NOTATA REMARKABLY ADAPTED RUNNING SWIFTLY ACROSS DUNES BURROWING INTO SOFT SAND -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUNE LIZARDS SNAKES REMARKABLE DUNE RESIDENTS FRINGE-TOED LIZARD NOTATA SHOVEL-NOSED SAND SNAKE CHIONACTIS OCCIPITALIS WELL ADAPTED RAPID BURROWING THROUGH SAND PHENOMENON KNOWN SAND SWIMMING DEPTHS ONLY INCHES TEMPERATURE FAHRENHEIT DEGREES COOLER FRINGE-TOED LIZARDS OFTEN SEEN SCURRYING OVER SAND DUNES DURING MILD SPRING DAYS EVEN SUMMER THEIR TOES FRINGED WITH ELONGATE POINTED SCALES WHICH PROVIDE TRACTION SAND LIKE EXTRA-GRIP TREAD THEY WITH AMAZING SPEED ACROSS STEEP DUNES THEN STOP SUDDENLY WRIGGLE SIGHT INTO COOLER LAYERS SAND SPECIAL EYELIDS COUNTERSUNK LOWER KEEPS SAND GRAINS SHOVEL-NOSED SAND SNAKE BANDED SAND SNAKE CHILOMENISCUS CINCTUS ALSO WELL-ADAPTED BURROWING THROUGH SAND WITH THEIR STREAMLINED HEAD SMOOTH SCALATION WHICH MINIMIZE FRICTION THEY GLIDE SWIFTLY THROUGH SAND REMINISCENT GIANT SAND WORMS SCI-FI MOVIE DUNE TERRIFYING SAND CREATURES MOVIE TREMORS ALTHOUGH HARMLESS COLORFUL BANDED SAND SNAKE SOMETIMES MISTAKEN POISONOUS CORAL SNAKE HOWEVER CORAL SNAKE BLACK-TIPPED HEAD BANDS THAT COMPLETELY ENCIRCLE BODY BORDERED YELLOW WHITE BANDS BANDED SAND SNAKE CHILOMENISCUS CINCTUS REMARKABLY ADAPTED RAPID MOVEMENT THROUGH SOFT SAND ALTHOUGH HARMLESS THIS COLORFUL BANDED SNAKE SOMETIMES MISTAKEN POISONOUS CORAL SNAKE SHOVEL-NOSED SAND SNAKE CHIONACTIS OCCIPITALIS HARMLESS LITTLE SNAKE THAT LIVES LIFE BURROWING SWIMMING SAND DUNES LIKE BANDED SAND SNAKE ALSO REMARKABLY ADAPTED RAPID MOVEMENT THROUGH SOFT SAND -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAND FOOD SAND PLANT MOST INTERESTING DUNE PLANTS CERTAINLY MOST BIZARRE WILDFLOWERS NORTH AMERICA SAND FOOD PHOLISMA SONORAE FORMERLY PLACED GENUS AMMOBROMA THIS AMAZING PARASITIC FLOWERING PLANT GROWS ALGODONES DUNES SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA ADJACENT ARIZONA SAND DUNES GRAN DESIERTO SONORA MEXICO NORTH BAHIA ADAIR GULF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERNMOST EXTENT APPEARS REGION AROUND BAHIA ADAIR CORTEZ COAST SONORA MEXICO WITHIN THIS AREA PLANTS GROW SAND DUNES PRODUCED WIND TRANSPORT SAND FROM BEACHES ANCIENT LAKE CAHUILLA COLORADO RIVER DELTA ARTICLE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY FREMONTIA PROFESSOR ARMSTRONG WOLFFIA REPORTED THAT SAND FOOD ONLY GROWS ALGODONES DUNES THOUGHT THAT DUNES GRAN DESIERTO WERE PART ALGODONES DUNE CHAIN ALTHOUGH ERROR REPORTING THAT SAND FOOD ONLY GROWS ALGODONES DUNES PROFESSOR ARMSTRONG WELL AWARE OCCURRENCE THIS SPECIES BAHIA ADAIR ANOTHER UNUSUAL SPECIES SAND FOOD PHOLISMA CULIACANA ENDEMIC ROCKY SUBTROPICAL THORN SCRUB MILES SOUTH SINALOA MEXICO ACCORDING GARY NABHAN DESERT PLANTS DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION THESE SPECIES EXPLAINED PLATE TECTONICS FLORAS WEST ANDREAS FAULT GULF RIFT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BAJA CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN DISPLACED NORTHWARD LEAST SINCE MIOCENE EPOCH ABOUT MILLION YEARS ASSUMING THAT CULIACANA MORE LIKE TROPICAL PROGENITOR BOTH SPECIES SONORAE COULD HAVE DIVERGED INTO MORE XERIC DROUGHT RESISTANT SPECIES WEST ANDREAS FAULT PENINSULAR CALIFORNIA MOVED NORTHWARD PRESENT POPULATIONS SONORAE EAST FAULT COULD HAVE MIGRATED THERE SHIFTING SAND DUNES REGION SEVERAL MUSHROOM-LIKE FLOWER HEADS RARE SAND FOOD PHOLISMA SONORAE ALGODONES DUNES EACH FUZZY HEAD PRODUCES NUMEROUS TINY LAVENDER FLOWERS THIS PERHAPS MOST BIZARRE WILDFLOWERS NORTH AMERICA SAND FOOD ROOT PARASITE WITH THICK SCALY STEM THAT EXTEND FEET MORE INTO DUNE WHERE ATTACHES ROOTS NEARBY SHRUBS DEEP SOFT SAND ENTIRE PLANT LIVES BELOW SURFACE SAND WITH ONLY FLOWER HEAD PUSHING ABOVE SAND DURING EARLY SPRING SCALY STEM WITHOUT CHLOROPHYLL NONPHOTOSYNTHETIC VITAL ORGANIC NUTRIENTS AMINO ACIDS CARBOHYDRATES COME FROM NEARBY HOST SHRUBS DRIED FLOWER HEAD WITH LONG SUBTERRANEAN SCALY STEM SUPERFICIALLY RESEMBLES SAND DOLLAR ATTACHED LONG PIECE SEAWEED PHOTO IMAGE LEFT SAND FOOD'S COMMON HOST SHRUBS ALGODONES DUNES DUNE BUCKWHEAT ERIOGONUM DESERTICOLA RELATED CULIACANA COMPLETELY DIFFERENT HOST SHRUBS THORN SCRUB SINALOA MEXICO THIS ENDEMIC BUCKWHEAT LARGE SHRUB WITH PICTURESQUE TWISTED TRUNKS LONG DEEP ROOTS THAT OFTEN EXPOSED SHIFTING SAND SAND FOOD ALSO PARASITIZES ROOTS MAT-LIKE DUNE SHRUBS BORAGE FAMILY COLDENIA PLICATA PALMERI OTHER HOST SHRUBS INCLUDE DYEWEED PSOROTHAMNUS EMORYI BUR-SAGE AMBROSIA DUMOSA ARROWWEED PLUCHEA SERICEA LATTER SHRUB MORE TYPICAL MARSH AREAS EARLY FRANKLIN THACKERY DISCOVERED SAND FOOD PLANTS ARISING FROM SINGLE ARROWWEED PLANT NEAR IRRIGATION CANAL IMPERIAL COUNTY CALIFORNIA NORTH CALIPATRIA HOST PLANT WEIGHED JUST OVER POUND WHILE SAND FOOD PLANTS WEIGHED POUNDS THIS REMARKABLE CASE PARASITE OUTWEIGHED HOST MORE THAN PERCENT COURSE MOST SAND FOOD'S COMBINED WEIGHT WATER STORED FLESHY TISSUES THACKERY CONCLUDED THAT PARASITE OVERTAXING HOST ABSORBING WATER SUPPLEMENT THAT WHICH PROVIDED HOST BECAUSE SAND FOOD BRITTLE THACKERY SUSPEND EACH STEMS WITH SEPARATE STRINGS ORDER TAKE PHOTOGRAPH REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH DESERT MAGAZINE LOOKS LIKE SAND FOOD PUPPET SHOW FLOWERING PLANTS FLOWERS SEED-BEARING FRUITS PROVIDE VITAL GENETIC LINK BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS FLOWER HEADS INFLORESCENCES SAND FOOD DEVELOP SURFACE SAND WHERE THEY VISITED POLLINATORS RESEMBLE FUZZY MUSHROOMS GRAY POWDER PUFFS BEARING NUMEROUS TINY LAVENDER FLOWERS INDIVIDUAL FLOWERS SURROUNDED HAIRY CALYX MASSES HAIRY CALYCES GIVE HEADS SAND-COLORED WOOLLY TEXTURE APPEARANCE WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY REFLECTS LIGHT HEAT SUN-BAKED DUNES HEADS REACH INCHES DIAMETER FLOWERS OFTEN APPEAR CIRCULAR PATTERN SAND FOOD FLOWERS APPARENTLY INSECT-POLLINATED ACCORDING DRESSLER KUIJT MADRONO FLOWERS CULIACANA HAVE FAINT SWEET ODOR VISITED FLIES BEETLES SMALL BUTTERFLIES SAND FOOD PLANTS ALGODONES DUNES SOMETIMES INFESTED WITH SMALL ANTS MEALYBUGS ANTS AFTER SMALL SEEDS PERHAPS SWEET NECTAR SECRETION FROM MEALYBUGS KNOWN HONEYDEW FOLLOWING POLLINATION EACH FLOWER GIVES RISE SMALL FRUIT CAPSULE COMPOSED MINUTE SEEDS ARRANGED CIRCLE LIKE WEDGES CHEESE DEPENDING FAVORABLE WINTER RAINS POLLINATION EACH FLOWER HEAD PRODUCE HUNDREDS SEEDS SCALY STEMS EXTEND MORE THAN FEET INTO SAND WHERE THEY ATTACHED ROOTS DUNE BUCKWHEAT ANOTHER HOST SHRUB DIFFICULT TRACE ORIGIN THESE STRANGE PLANTS BECAUSE SAND CAVES FAST SHOVEL NATIVE INDIANS INCLUDING SAND PAPAGOS COCOPAS FLESHY STEMS SAND FOOD EITHER ROASTED OVER CAMPFIRE STEMS WERE ALSO DRIED GROUND METATE WITH MESQUITE BEANS FORMING FLOUR CALLED PINOLE FLAVOR STEMS PLEASANTLY SWEET WITH TEXTURE SIMILAR CRISP JUICY RADISH HOWEVER THIS RARE DESERT PLANT SHOULD HARVESTED HUNGRY NATURE LOVERS ACCORDING AUTHORITY DESERT PLANTS EDMUND JAEGER WHEN ROASTED STEMS RESEMBLE FLAVOR WELL-BROWNED YAMS SWEET POTATOES CLOSELY-RELATED ROOT PARASITE CALLED SAND PLANT PHOLISMA PHOLISMA ARENARIUM FLESHY SCALY SUBTERRANEAN STEM GROWTH HABIT SIMILAR SAND FOOD PRODUCES PECULIAR EGG-SHAPED CLUSTER LAVENDER FLOWERS SANDY AREAS COLORADO DESERT COASTAL SAND DUNES CALIFORNIA UNLIKE SAND FOOD STEMS PARTICULARLY FLAVORFUL PALATABLE--AT LEAST THIS AUTHOR'S OPINION SEVERAL EGG-SHAPED FLOWER HEADS UNUSUAL SAND PLANT PHOLISMA ARENARIUM EACH OVAL HEAD PRODUCES NUMEROUS TINY LAVENDER FLOWERS THIS STRANGE ROOT PARASITE OCCASIONALLY SEEN SANDY AREAS COLORADO DESERT REGION SEEDLINGS THESE UNUSUAL ROOT PARASITES ABLE FIND HOST ROOT BURIED DEEP SAND TRULY REMARKABLE DISCUSSED KUIJT BIOLOGY PARASITIC FLOWERING PLANTS ACCORDING KUIJT SAND PLANT PHOLISMA ARENARIUM SENDS PILOT ROOTS FEET BELOW SURFACE SAND WHEN THEY REACH VICINITY HOST SHRUB PILOT ROOTS SEND SPECIAL HAUSTORIAL ROOTS WHICH CONNECT PENETRATE HOST ROOT HAUSTORIAL CONNECTION HAUSTORIUM ABSORBS CARBOHYDRATES AMINO ACIDS MANUFACTURED PHOTOSYNTHETIC HOST SHRUB OTHER FACTORS ALSO INVOLVED FINDING HOST ROOTS SMALL SEEDS MOVE DOWNWARD THROUGH SAND BURIED CONTINUALLY SHIFTING SAND DUNES WHICH SUBSEQUENTLY COLONIZED HOST VEGETATION THEY ALSO CARRIED DEEP INTO SAND HARVESTER ANTS RODENTS KANGAROO RATS THAT BURROW INTO DUNES UNDER HOST SHRUBS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTLIONS INFAMOUS SAND WASP DISCUSSION DENIZENS DRIFTING SAND WOULD INCOMPLETE WITHOUT MENTIONING VERY UNUSUAL INSECTS ANTLION SAND WASP ANTLION RESEMBLES GROTESQUE SMALL SCALE VERSION SAND CREATURE STAR TREK FILM WRATH KHAN BUILDS CIRCULAR CRATER SAND THEN WAITS PATIENTLY UNDER SAND BOTTOM HAPLESS PASSERBY STEEP CRATER WALLS MAKE ESCAPE SMALL CRAWLING INSECTS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE STRUGGLING VICTIMS LITERALLY PULLED INTO SAND SUCKED HOLLOW FANGS JAWS ANTLION ANTLIONS WERE FEET LONG THEY WOULD FORMIDABLE DESERT SCI-FI MONSTER THAT COULD EASILY GRAB HUMANS CLOSE-UP VIEW ANTLION LARVA SHOWING PECULIAR GROTESQUE FUSIFORM BODY ENORMOUS TOOTHED JAWS MANDIBLES THIS FIERCE-LOOKING CREATURE MAKES FUNNEL-SHAPED SAND THEN WAITS BOTTOM AMBUSH HAPLESS INSECT THAT HAPPENS FALL INTO PITFALL TRAP ANTLIONS DENIZENS SAND SAND WASPS BEMBIX SPECIES TUNNELS SOFT SAND WHERE THEY LIVE ELABORATE CONDOMINIUMS THEY READILY DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER WASP SPECIES THEIR ELONGATE TRIANGULAR LABRUM SAND WASPS DIFFER FROM SPIDER WASPS DAUBERS MANY OTHER DIGGING WASPS THAT PROVIDE THEIR LARVAE WITH SINGLE CACHE FOOD THAT MUST LAST THROUGHOUT LARVA'S DEVELOPMENT SAND WASPS CONTINUALLY CATCH INSECTS SUCH FLIES BRING THEM HOME THEIR BURROWS THEY OFTEN SEEN HOVERING OVER DUNES SEARCH SMALL INSECTS FEED THEIR YOUNG ALTHOUGH THEY SOCIAL INSECTS LIKE HORNETS YELLOW JACKETS HONEY BEES THEY NEST SAME VICINITY TEND DEVELOP PRIMITIVE TYPE COLONY LARGE BEACH SAND WASP BEMBIX OCCIDENTALIS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESERVATION SAND DUNES MANY PEOPLE SAND DUNES SHOULD PRESERVED THEY JUST PILES SAND DEVOID PLANTS ANIMALS NOTHING COULD FURTHER FROM TRUTH THERE HUNDREDS DUNE SPECIES THROUGHOUT SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES MEXICO SOME WHICH CONSIDERED RARE ENDANGERED UNITED 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